The Fasting Path: For Spiritual, Emotional, and Physical Healing and Renewal
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (674 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1583331700 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-02-13 |
| Language | : | English |
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Stephen Harrod Buhner is a master herbalist, psychotherapist, and an expert on indigenous and contemplative spiritual traditions. Much of his work and writing focuses on herbal and alternative healing, deep ecology, and sacred plant medicine.
Author Stephen Buhner explains how fasting allows us to experience fully the intricate relationship of the mind, body, and the spiritual world. Unleash the power of fasting to help you discover your sacred self. The Fasting Path is a guide to help readers safely and effectively use fasting to tap into the sacred energy of the earth. A centuries-old tradition, fasting has historically been recognized as a way to heighten human sensitivity to all things-animate and insensate-in the universe. Step by step, Buhner leads readers through the fasting process, preparing them to embrace the physical, emotional, and spiritual healing resulting from this transformational phenomenon.. Ancient cultures understood the link between the physical, the emotional, and the spiritual experience and acknowledged fasting as a means for making this connection
. He lives in Silver City, New Mexico. Revealing how fasting can help or heal many chronic conditions, such as type II diabetes, childhood seizures, hypertension, cardiovascular disease, arthritis, psoriasis, insomnia, and fibromyalgia, Buhner shows fasting as a way to truly inhabit the body, to experience its sacredness, and to activate its deep capabilities for self-healing. His other books include Ensouling Language, The Secret Teachings of Plants, and Sacred Plant Medicine. During a fast
"The Best Book on Fasting" according to A Customer. I have read most, if not all, the books out there on fasting and this one is the best. It looks at fasting through its spiritual, emotional, and physical aspects - in great detail. Fasting has been present in all the world's spiritual traditions and the author shares comments throughout the text about what the adherents of those traditions felt and discovered about fasting. But it is not simply a rehash of old material, the book explores in tremendously poetic l. "Great book on fasting - if you want to fast, read this." according to NG. excellent book on fasting. I recently finished a water fast and would have benefitted a lot had I also read the book prior to doing the fast as it re enforces and inspires with the details of what is happening within a fast. Highly recommend. Book Worm said Good book for some.. This book was very good for those who really are having thoughts about the spiritual/emotional aspects of fasting. For me, as a first time faster, I really wanted info on the facts of fasting, i.e. how to fast, what I should do, how much should I be drinking, water drinking, etc. This book has a very short section on this towards the end, only a few pages. The rest is devoted to the positive spirtual aspects you can gain through fasting. There are also a couple